From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 31 10:45:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA27203 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:45:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [206.169.44.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA27197 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:45:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (ulf@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net [206.169.44.2]) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA12859; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:46:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (8.8.2/8.7.6) id KAA11458; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:43:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Ulf Zimmermann" Message-Id: <961031104344.ZM11456@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:43:43 -0800 In-Reply-To: J Wunsch "Re: EFS" (Oct 31, 5:52pm) References: <199610311652.RAA14734@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.514 14may96) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: EFS Cc: vadim@tversu.ac.ru MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Oct 31, 5:52pm, J Wunsch wrote: > Subject: Re: EFS > As Warner Losh wrote: > > > SGI is currently supporting a Linux port to their machines. However, > > I've not seen that code released yet. When it is, maybe that will be > > enough documentation to port code. But then again, maybe not. It is > > supposed to support efs as well, or so the rumors I've heard say. > > Btw., IRIX' efs is among the most fragile file systems i've seen (or > its particular implementation in IRIX 5.2 and 5.3, maybe). One power > failure or panic, and even X servers (guaranteed to be only read, > never written) went away through /dev/null... > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >-- End of excerpt from J Wunsch Joerg, I never did that observation on 5.3, also not 6.2. Irix is for me one of the best unix machines there you can press the reset button. Even the rest of Irix is a different story. But SGI now says also to use XFS instead of EFS. XFS is faster and more secure against crash. -- Ulf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Lamb Art Internet Services | http://www.Lamb.net/ | http://www.Alameda.net